Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.
What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
What types of cookies does A1 Publishing use?
There are generally four categories of cookies: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functionality and Targeting;
Strictly Necessary Cookies
We don't use any strictly necessary cookies. You can still usefully visit any of our pages with cookies disabled.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you have used our pages. For example, we use Google Analytics (Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites) to help us better understand numbers and demographics of visitors to our site. You may disallow these with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Functionality Cookies
We use functional cookies to help us provide pages as you want them. For example, we currently use a cookie to remember whether you have requested to view pages on a particular type of device, eg., desktop, tablet or mobile.
Targeting Cookies
Targeted advertising is a form of advertising where online advertisers can use sophisticated methods to target the most receptive audiences with certain traits, based on the product or person the advertiser is promoting.
A1 Publishing, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device's browsing activity on other sites or services. This information may be shared with organisations outside A1 Publishing, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate service usage statistics and aggregate service testing.
How to control and delete cookies?
Many sites give instructions on how to manage cookies on your devices. For example, WikiHow have a page detailing how to delete or disable cookies. You can find out more information about cookie settings at third-party information sites such as AllAboutCookies
GDPR Compliance
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). We currently obtain implicit consent for the use of strictly necessary, performance and functionality cookies by first directing new visitors to our sites Cookie Policy page (this page). Before setting any targetting ads we do so only having obtained prior consent.
Our Advertising Partners
Providing Personalised Advertising:
Alphabet Inc. (Google Adsense)
- Find out how Google will use your personal data when you give consent: Google's Privacy & Terms
Providing Non-personalised Advertising:
